Mr Sanders vowed to do all he could to prevent Mr Trump from being elected, but has not endorsed Mrs Clinton. “I will of course be competing in the D.C. primary which be held on next Tuesday [June 14]”. Clinton’s pitch now avoids those details to stipulate that both of them want the minimum wage raised. She won young voters, who had abandoned her in the primary, 73 percent to 19 percent.
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Two advisers to Mr. Sanders described him as concerned that Mrs. Clinton might say all the right things now but embrace more politically moderate positions later if she thinks it necessary to win states like Florida, Ohio and Virginia.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met Tuesday evening to try to start healing wounds from their long, bitter primary battle. And it came to an end without Sanders conceding or endorsing Clinton, although the two met last night and released positive-sounding statements.
Instead, Sanders said he was going to “fight as hard as” he could to change the Democratic Party.
He also pointed out that overall, the Democratic Party is united in its key priorities and principles. “They want to see the Democratic Party stand up to the wealthy and powerful, and stand up for people who are hurting”. “I very much am looking forward to having his support in this campaign because Donald Trump poses a serious threat to our nation”.
With the DNC coming up next month and with Sanders still stringing his campaign supporters on, many Democrats are eagerly awaiting their Party’s next steps to keep a progressive in the White House and a conservative billionaire out.
The District of Columbia has a large population of black and Hispanic minorities who are particularly in favour of the former Secretary of State, and is a place of residence of many members of the Democratic Party’s “establishment”.
“Sanders and Clinton agreed to continue working to develop a progressive agenda that addresses the needs of working families and the middle class and adopting a progressive platform for the Democratic National Convention”, said Sanders spokesperson Michael Briggs in a statement that avoided use of the recent buzz word “unity”.
Lawmakers in attendance said Sanders did not indicate his future plans.
“What Donald Trump is saying is shameful”, she added. But as the Democratic Party has rallied around Clinton (save for Bernie Sanders – more on that below), Trump is pretty much all alone here in his reaction to Orlando. In his first visit to the weekly luncheon since spring, he got three standing ovations.
“U.S. Sen. Rob Portman said Tuesday he favors a federal ban on weapons sales to those on the U.S. terrorist watch list, even though he voted against a similar proposal past year”, the Plain Dealer writes. The move could go far to quell concerns of divisions within the party. “I like Bernie. He identifies the problems, but his solutions don’t work”.
Clinton congratulated Sanders on the campaign he had run, and he congratulated her, campaign aides said. “But both of them stopped actively campaigning against Walter Mondale”.
As part of a pared-back schedule, she campaigned in Pittsburgh on Tuesday before traveling to Washington for a fundraising event and the meeting with Sanders. Obama, who nominated Wasserman Schultz to the post, gave her a ringing endorsement in March and she’s been a loyal Clinton ally. “Senator Sanders and I have a lot to talk about – we have a lot in common”.
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Winning the Washington DC primary with 79 per cent of the vote, Mrs Clinton emerges from the primary with a total of 2,800 convention delegates, comprising 2,219 pledged delegates and 581 super-delegates – well in excess of the 2,383 delegates she required to secure the nomination. Clinton won among those older than 30, and her advantage was particularly acute among those older than 50; she defeated Sanders by 38 points among those between ages 50 and 64, and by 37 points among those older than 65.
